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Subj : Re: Problem with system() calls in a multithreaded program on HPUX 11
To   : comp.programming.threads,comp.sys.hp.hpux
From : otto
Date : Thu Feb 17 2005 12:31 am

In article <4211a1e8@news.meer.net>,
	"Dan Koren" <dankoren@yahoo.com> writes:
> 
> Replace 'system(cmd)' by 'pclose(popen(cmd, "w"))' and
> things should work as long as 'cmd' is reasonably well
> behaved.

Note that this will crash if popen() fails, since passing in NULL to
pclose() will cause a segfault. I see this is used as a suggestion
in the popen man page on Solaris (in fact both examples they give
are buggy), they should really fix this so that naive users don't
write broken programs.

Otto

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